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This week, TerraCycle officially launched in Brazil! The new global launch comes just six months after launching with Frito-Lay in the US, and now the expansion into Brazil - with other countries to follow - makes an important

Are there any other words that people are more tired of hearing than ‘green jobs’? I mean, they’re a great thing, and a key to our nation’s future economic success, but the term gets tossed around so much, people are

We're not sure if this is legal, or if it's the first of its kind, but thanks to Tipster Jason for the scoop on this latest in carbon offsets. Seems where there is a need, there is a market and one man has decided to test this

Homeowners in Austin, TX are now required to have an energy efficiency audit prior to listing their house for sale. While this is not the first city in the US to mandate such a program, that isn't making it any easier for

Politicians are hitting the House floor to pontificate on ACES, the climate and energy bill moving through Congress. Whatever you think of the bill, it must be said that most people agree that it will help create new green jobs. But for some in

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The New York Times reported today that the Texas State Legislature voted down a measure over the weekend that would have brought solar incentives to this sunny, southern state. For a state with a lot to gain from solar, why would

With the auto giant General Motors filing for bankruptcy today, they are now promising to change into a lean, green automobile-making machine. But if you look at the facts, they already are green. Is GM the poster child for

The unemployment situation in the U.S. is serious. Currently there are 13.7 million unemployed people. Of these, 6 million have been added since the beginning of the recession (December of 2007 ) and nearly 4 million

When I first saw the headline that soon solar will support more than just installer jobs, and that it's now become a large enough offshoot to warrant its own news release, I thought, 'great, the idea of starting one's own green,

The top wind power companies have united to warn Congress that setting a Renewable Energy Standard too low would mean surrendering a slew of US jobs to Europe and Asia. They've joined forces to counter the message put forth by coal, oil,

As the mortgage and banking industry collapsed last year, a painful reminder that prejudice banking still exists echoed over thousands of foreclosed homes whose minority owners had taken out a second mortgage (with

In 2007, former British Environment Secretary David Miliband delivered a speech in London entitled Green Business is Good Business. In the address, Miliband affirmed his belief in the power of sustainable business. "Ethical and environmental concerns

After becoming a renewable energy entrepreneur (think massive kites), Saul Griffith started wondering about the greenness of his own life—so he started counting. The exercise became an exploration, which resulted in the website WattzOn.com, a power

There is nothing new about whole families working out of the house in New York, and TreeHugger is a big fan of home-working (as we all do it). Margaret Farley Steele of The New York Times writes about how the recession is causing many people to